The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel : the official organ of the diocese of Maitland

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[Registered' at tHe> General Poet Office. Sydney, for transmission by Post aa Newspaper!  

The Newcastle and GDaitland  

Catholic Sentinel  

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION 27-  

LIFE SUBSCRIPTION £3  

Vol. XVII. No. 2. WEST MAITLAND, NOVEMBER 1, 1947.  

The Official Organ of the Diocese of Maitland  

Rev. G. P. Flatley, Editor  

Price, 2d.  

OUR FRIENDS, AND OURSELVES:  

\X7E Catholics believe so intensely in  

the life beyond that for us death  

does not make the huge difference that  

others would have us suppose. Those  

who have crossed over to that other life  

are themselves alive. We call it life,  

and real life we believe it to be. For  

us Catholics, indeed, there is no such  

thing as death in the sense that it means  

the absolute cutting off of all regard for  

the life that is this side of eternity. We  

ask the prayers of those whom we know  

to be beloved of God, nor does it matter  

whether they be alive or dead, since we  

suppose them always to remain human  

enough to be interested in human things.  

Hence it is that we ask the good to pray  

for us when we meet them in our life  

here; and when we learn that they have  

gone over into the fuller and ampler life  

that is above, we do not say that then  

they cannot be asked to help us, but  

rather that their prayers are far more  

likely to have weight with God, and that  

they will be more interested in our  

welfare.  

Hence it is that the Catholic Church  

has always advocated prayers to the  

saints. Just because the saints are dead,  

why should we cease to beg their inter-  

cession? So, again, is it with those who  

are in Purgatory. We prayed for them  

when they were alive; in their troubles,  

in their day of trial, we rememberd them  

before God; why now that they are still  

in state of trial should we put aside  

their claims on us?  

How do we know that our prayers can  

be of any avail to the dead? How do  

we know that when they were alive, our  

prayers were of any use to them? We  

trusted in the mercy of God, and fol-  

lowed the practice of Christian tradition;  

so now we trust in God’s compassion and  

adopt the Christian inheritance.  

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